Olympic Winter Games 1928 / participant (Austria)

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Austria took part in the II. Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 with a delegation of 39 athletes, 34 of them men and 5 women. For the first time, the line-up consisted of not only successful figure skaters but also athletes from the fields of speed skating , ice hockey , Nordic skiing and skeleton .

Medals

	gold	silver	bronze	total
Austria	0	3	1	4th

Silver medals

• Willy Böckl ( figure skating, singles, men )
• Friederike Burger ( figure skating, singles, women )
• Elisabeth Scholz and Otto Kaiser ( figure skating, pair skating )

Bronze medal

• Melitta Brunner and Ludwig Wrede ( figure skating, pair skating )

Participants and Results

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• Austria I: Gustav Mader , Ferdinand Langer , Franz Pamperl , Walter Sehr and Hugo Weinstengel (disqualified because they lost a team member)
• Austria II: Franz Lorenz , Benno Karner , Richard Lorenz , Franz Wohlgemuth and Eduard Pechanda (22nd place)

Reserve athletes were F. Langer, L. Hasenknopf and O. Wenzel.

ice Hockey

• Herbert Brück
• Walter Brück
• Jacques Dietrichstein
• Hans Ertl
• Josef Göbl
• Hans Kail
• Herbert Klang
• Ulrich Lederer
• Walter Sell
• Reginald Spevak
• Hans Tatzer
• Hermann White

figure skating

Men's

• Willy Böckl

  Silver medal (individual)

• Otto Kaiser

  Silver medal (pair run with Elisabeth "Lilly" Scholz)

• Karl Schäfer

  4th place (single)

• Ludwig Wrede

  Bronze medal (pair run with Melitta Brunner)

  8th place (single)

Ladies

• Melitta Brunner

  Bronze medal (pair run with Ludwig Wrede)

  7th place (single)

• Friederike Burger

  Silver medal (individual)

• Use Hornung

  8th place (single)

• Grete Kubischek

  17th place (single)

• Lilly Scholz

  Silver medal (pair skating with Otto Kaiser)

Speed ​​skating

• Fritz Moser

  18th place (500 m)

  15th place (1500 m)

  27th place (5000 m)

• Otto Polacsek

  21st place (500 m)

  8th place (5000 m)

• Rudolf Riedl

  24th place (500 m)

  21st place (1500 m)

  26th place (5000 m)

skeleton

• Louis Hasenknopf

  8th place (single)

• Franz Unterlechner

  6th place (single)

Nordic skiing

(Cross-country skiing, jumping, Nordic combined)

Austria's representatives in Nordic skiing were the Paumgarten brothers from Graz, Heinz Hinterauer from Salzburg and Harald Bosio from the State Ski Association for Vienna and Lower Austria. However, the Olympic Games were not a good star for Austria's Nordic athletes. Hinterauer was unable to take part in the competition due to an angina, and Styrian Fridtjof Paumgarten broke his thigh in a fall while training for jumping. In the cross-country competition, Harald Bosio suffered a ski break and had to give up while lying in the race. In jumping he came in at least 29th place with widths of 51 and 52 meters. Only Harald Paumgarten was spared from injuries and mishaps, but could not implement his previously good form in the competitions.

• Harald Bosio

  29th place (normal hill jumping)

  Cross-country skiing 18 km (abandoned due to a broken ski)

• Heinz Hinterauer
• Fridtjof Paumgarten
• Harald Paumgarten

  17th place (cross-country skiing 18 km)

  17th place (Nordic combined, individual)

Web links

• ÖOC - Austrian Olympic Committee
• ÖSV - Austrian Ski Association
• Austrian Olympic team 1928 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )